Editorial September 20, 1969 Issue

Divine Logic Heals

Helen Wood Bauman

Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of Christian Science included her discovery of divine logic. She discerned certain truths that forced conclusions apart from and even in opposition to human reason; and she found her conclusions conferring healing power. Starting with the logical deduction that a cause must have a like effect, she took the confusion out of human reasoning. She classified all good as emanating from a God who is good, a Principle that is Love; and she then designated all evil as unconnected with that Principle and as false and illusory.

It took a prophet to discern the divine logic Isaiah recorded as stated by Deity, "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." ^{Isa. 44:6;} Mrs. Eddy exercises the same prophetical insight when, after declaring God to be infinite good, she asks, "What can there be besides infinity?" Her answer is, "Nothing!" And her God-inspired deduction follows: "Therefore the Science of good calls evil nothing." Soon she adds, "Here is where Christian Science sticks to its text, and other systems of religion abandon their own logic." ^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 27;}

Divine logic is inescapable. Christ Jesus pointed to its inevitability when he said that "of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes." ^{Luke 6:44;}

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